ROBERT A. MICHAELS; PhD, CEP

Chairperson, ABCEP Certification Review Board, 1993 to 2013

ABCEP Board-Certified Environmental Professional, 1986 to present

Trustee, Academy of Board-Certified Environmental Professionals, 1990 to 2013

Board Member, National Association of Environmental Professionals, 1993 to 2013

Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Engineering & Policy (Springer-Verlag), 1998 to 2001

Sec’y, NFPA Comm. on Classification and Properties of Hazardous Chemicals, 1991 to present

Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Claims Journal (Taylor & Francis), 2024 to present

Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Practice (Cambridge U. Press), 2006 to 2015

Appointed Consultant to US EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), since 2002

Elected Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences, since 1986

Dr. Michaels is President of Schenectady, New York-based RAM TRAC Corporation, and a toxicologist specializing in assessment and management of risks to public health potentially posed by environmental contaminants. Over the past decade he has been involved as an analyst and expert witness with such issues as: effects of lead (Pb) on children’s health in Flint, Michigan and elsewhere; effects of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) near Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Hoosick Falls, New York and in areas such as Cape Fear affected by Chemours Fayetteville Works in North Carolina; and the GE Company’s Hudson River PCB dredging. Dr. Michaels has a strong reputation for objectivity, having served national and international Fortune 500 clients; Federal, State and Municipal government clients including the U. S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment and the New York State Attorney’s General Office; and, in the public interest, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Dr. Michaels consulted for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment on Love Canal (New York), and in 2002 was appointed as a Consultant to the U. S. EPA Science Advisory Board. For years he chaired the State of Maine’s Scientific Advisory Panel. For 20 years he chaired the Certification Review Board of the Academy of Board-Certified Environmental Professionals (ABCEP). He served for decades as Secretary of the National Fire Protection Association Committee on Classification and Properties of Hazardous Chemicals, and as a Board Member of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. For over a decade Dr. Michaels served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Springer-Verlag, Cambridge University Press, and Taylor & Francis science journals. He earned his doctorate at SUNY/Stony Brook in 1979, was elected a Life Member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1986, and in 2004 was awarded ABCEP’s Kramer Medal for his professional contributions.